Final work presented in Economics and Enviroment course
Forest engineering student
It is an ecosystem characterized by:
From ~9 million of hectares of original tropical dry forest extension, today only remain around of 8%. The livestock grazing and agriculture expansion are the main drivers of deforestation.
The ecosystem services are the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that directly or indirectly contribute to human wellbeing: that is, the benefits that people obtain from functioning ecosystems (Costanza et al., 2017).
PES modalities
To determine the Colombian towns with potential to implement a PES scheme. The town potential was established through the opportunity cost1 of the main farming activities in regions where the tropical dry forest is present.